Becoming Olympia

Before she became the heart of the Blanchard family, Olympia Blanchard was a young girl with a stubborn streak, a gift she was still learning to understand, and an entire lifetime of trouble waiting for her.

Long before her daughters and grandchildren came to depend upon her wisdom, Olympia was growing up in 1940s Daihmler County, Alabama, where life could be as unforgiving as the people who believed they knew what was best for everyone else.

She wasn't always the fearless woman her family would come to know.

As a child, Olympia was curious, eager to please, and sometimes timid. But growing older had a way of testing those qualities, and the world had a way of teaching her that being a good girl and being a good woman weren't necessarily the same thing.

Alongside her sister Pastoria and their unforgettable friend Zelda, Olympia discovers that growing up with extraordinary abilities doesn't make the ordinary troubles of life any easier. There are friendships to navigate, expectations to defy, mistakes to make, and choices that will follow her long after the consequences have faded.

And while the woman she will become is already taking shape, there are lessons she must learn the hard way.

Some will make her stronger. Others will leave scars. All of them will help shape the formidable witch who will one day hold generations of Blanchards together.

Filled with Southern humor, family relationships, youthful adventures, and the complicated business of growing into oneself, Becoming Olympia takes readers back to where the Blanchard legacy truly began.

You know the grandmother. You know the legend. Now meet the girl who had no idea what she was destined to become.

Book Six of The Blanchard Witches series — a prequel exploring Olympia Blanchard's childhood and early adulthood.